 Eagle Creek to travel pack 40 liter. So this is a convertible hybrid carry-on backpack and I'm going to review this today. Hello everyone this is Amit Don of AmitDon.com. Today I'll have another episode of review video and we're going to be looking at this minimalist travel hybrid convertible backpack which is the Eagle Creek to travel pack 40 liter. If this is the first time I repeat visit thank you for your support on this channel I'm always trying new and different ideas. If you're into thinking outside the box this is the channel to subscribe. If you're looking for more review videos there will be links in the description box below. So I came across this Eagle Creek to travel backpack and it caught my attention due to its minimalist designing and very lightweight. So today we're going to look at the you know the positives and negatives of this travel backpack and then you know I'll give you my non-affiliated honest and unbashed opinion. So let's go over some of the specs first thing. So this is made of 100% recycled material which is right here and that's a very good thing. So constructed with 100% recycled fabrics so everything is 100% recycled. So you're not actually using anything new which is good for the planet and then let's take a look here. So here they have some of the you know specs which is built with 100% post-consumer recycled fabrics and then the performance suspension adjustable backpack straps vented shoulder straps with a storeable hip belt and the sternum strap. So basically you can you know hide the shoulder strap and you can just use it as a briefcase and then we have book style men compartment opening so it just opens like a book and then there's like you know attachment toggle for package intugation so inside you can actually attach a packet cubes or intugation if you have it which I don't have it and then there's a 15 inch laptop compartment and then it has the rain fly which can cover the bag in case of rain and here is some of the specs which are this is a 40 liter capacity and if you expand it if you expand then it's going to be 43 liter then the weight is only 2 pound 8 ounce which is very lightweight and the size is 20.5 13 by 8.7 inches 50 to 34 22.5 centimeter and then when you expand it is going to be 20.5 13.1 to 5 and 10.75 inches so what's happening here that when you expanding it's just like you know going up in length it doesn't go up on the you know length and width it's just going up in height so that's the way it works when you're expanding and the material is 100% recycled poly 6000 D diamond dubby and poly Oxford so basically that's all we have here so this comes in two different sizes small medium and medium large and you can actually find out what size is going to be perfect for you they have kind of a chart here and I just picked you know medium large so I don't have to it doesn't feel too small so the first thing I'm going to say that this is a very minimalistic you know design when you look at it you can feel that you know it's a very clean designing it has very simplistic minimalist designing and it just like you know catches your eyes that it's so nice designing so if you take a look here so this is the back and which we are going to open it slightly later and then this is the front so let's start with the first thing first so you have a meshed the zip pocket this is where you can like you know put your umbrella or water and it should fit like you know standard water bottle but I think if you go over one liter it's not going to fit in and then here these actually are compression straps and also we have compression straps right here you can like you know compress it to make it look smaller but at the same time if you have a let's say jacket or tripod you can also attach it using these either you can touch here and I think this one actually should be just for compression you cannot touch anything here because the grab handle is right here so there's one grab handle right here and there's another grab handle right here so you have two and the one thing is it doesn't come with cross-body you know shoulder strap so you cannot put it on your shoulder so it has to be used as a backpack or a briefcase like holding it like this and then let's look at these pockets so Eagle Creek mentioned that these are lockable but the problem with that what I see that you know you're kind of locking these zippers with this hole and it looks like you know it's gonna break or it's not gonna be that durable because look at the holding of these it's just like you know very on fabric so this is where I know I don't like it and also I'm not going to lock it but you know if you're locking it to this I think it doesn't serve the purpose because this is very easy to break so it's just meaningless to mention that these are lockable zippers and if you open one of them so there's a kind of like you know hook to carry your keychain or you can attach something else and this one doesn't have anything it just like you know you can put your stuff so here I can like you know put stuff when you're going through the airport checking to take it out very fast for example like you know your toiletry kits or small tablet or something else or you can also you know put in like you know small items for example pen or a notebook or something like that now I'm just going to show you the bag before I open the bag so here this is the backside of the bag but you can actually open it and you can take out the shoulder strap so let's do that so here okay now this is the rain slide so you can like you know cover the whole bag in case of rain but if you want to use the shoulder strap then what do you just kind of fold them and then you have to just put it underneath where is the pass through pocket so basically you are just putting it right here when you're using as a shoulder strap so it's like it's gonna be here like this so I don't like this a lot because you know even when you are putting it all the way it kind of you know it sticks out for example let me just show you so let's say you're putting it all the way but it doesn't look neat here you can tell here that something is out so this is also bad designing you know I don't like it that much but if you're using as a shoulder bag then you have to keep it this way and it looks like even you cannot like you know there's no zipper here to close it so you're gonna have to just leave it like this way now the shoulder straps they're nicely you know padded they feel comfortable and there's a sternum strap and these are adjustable so you can just like you know put it up and down and change the position and to fit your own specifications and then here we have hip belt strap to you know balance the way so you don't have to it doesn't feel too heavy and also these actually you can kind of you know stick it inside here when you're not using it so for example I can just kind of put it in here but again here is the bad designing comes again it's not like you know you're just kind of sticking it in here so this part also is not that okay but here one thing is that there's like you know space for airflow so when you're using the shoulder strap then you have the foam padding here and also the air pass through here so it's not going to like you know make you sweat or air is going to circulate for ventilation so that's another good thing now here I saw there's a whistle and this is just for emergency that you know if you need to use the whistle then you can definitely do so but which is right here it's kind of like you know hard to find but this is right here so if you just like you know use this is it sounds like this so it's not bad you know in hopefully you know never gonna need it but if you need it when you are like you know something wrong then definitely you can use that and except that here it's not bad except the you know problem with the pockets which are not like you know I think it's not that good designing now here we have a 15-inch laptop compartment and it's kind of in the middle and also it gives you access to take it out fast when you are going through the airport security and then so it has the padding of the bag and here it has the padding of the shoulder straps so that's a good thing and it has a kind of like a false bottom right here so it's not gonna have too much support on this side but the thing is you're just like you know carrying it this way so hopefully that's not going to be a big issue and I put in my 15-inch laptop and it just lights in perfectly which I'm going to show you right now so this is a 15-inch surface for laptop and if I enter it so you can see that this just you know fits nicely there's no problem with anything so this is just you know okay I'll take it out so now let me open the bag so here we have number eight self-repairing puncture resistant zipper these are actually not YKK zipper these are Eagle Creek's own zipper and I never had problems with Eagle Creek zippers in the past I have been using the Eagle Creek load holler and I have a review on that but there's no issue and these are lockable zippers so for example you can see that you know you can lock it and you can once you open it then you're just going to open like a book what I was mentioning about the self-repairing puncture resistant zipper is that you know it prevents teeth from getting in the bag but the thing is if someone wants to get in the bag it's very easy they have to just cut it here so I don't think it's gonna save you know save your back from thieves or anything but it's just a kind of an added layer of security and not to easily get in through the zipper but if someone wants they can definitely cut it here so now here this is the inside of the bag and here we have a mesh cover or pocket and here you can like you know put your items which you need to see or easily take out and here we have the main compartment and there's a kind of a like you know toggle hook right here so basically if you're buying evil creek creek packet cubes then you can kind of like an attach it here but I don't have that so I'm not going to use that here looks like there's like in a good space because this is like you know 40 liter and it can convert turn to 43 liter now if you want to expand it then you have to just like you know take out or open this part of the zipper open it then this gives you more space and you can see that now your bag is a lot bigger than what it used to be so let's say if you're traveling and you bought some stuff and you have no space that you can just like you know expand it and then you can use the extra space so I like this feature I remember with the evil creek load hauler I have the same feature and it came in use when I was traveling to India and I picked up some stuff so here they have a another you know set of strap our compression strap to hold our hold your stuff together so this is actually another good addition because not all bags have these but there's no other like you know pockets or anything over here so you're just happy it's just you know packing cube and you can use this section to keep some items separated so the positives of this bag is the minimalistic designing it looks very simple and it looks really really nice it comes in three different colors orange black and I think the other one is blue but I picked the orange or midnight Sun they call it and it looks really nice and the negatives I find is that there's no you know cross body shoulder strap so you can put it on your shoulder I'd have to use as a backpack and there's no daisy chain or there's no like you know a hole with a you know hook in the middle so you can attach a carabiner or anything some of these type of bags they have that and then also there's no external pockets or anything better than these two or even there's no like you know pockets in here and then the mesh water bottle pocket is not that big and you know I don't know how long it can hold so I'm not usually I don't use this but you know I don't like this type of mesh pocket bag I like it if it's like you know fabric instead of like you know a kind of mesh fabric I think if it's like in a regular stretchy fabric that's more durable but looks like it's still this is going to be okay and then the other thing I like that you know these two lockable zippers but really this is just meaningless you cannot really lock it as you can see that you know these two holes are not going to be able to hold it in case some just like you know kind of someone just kind of cut it to unlock it so this is actually not a good one and also I don't like the fact that you know the rain fly and the back cover is going where the pass through is but there's no like you know real external pocket to put this in same with these there's no external real pocket to put this in and then also here there's no additional like you know a daisy chain or any hook that I cannot actually I couldn't find anywhere on the back so these are some of the short coming but except that I like everything else and Eagle Creek bag I have used them in the past and you know they're very durable and my other Eagle Creek bag I have is the Eagle Creek cargo or I think it's load holler so that is still you know working and I take it to different destinations different places and nothing happened to it so I have the feeling that the same thing is going to happen to with this this is going to last a very long time and definitely I'm going to be using this on my next trip and I hope to do more videos on this in the future so thank you for watching there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you